Daily Archives: July 13, 2021

2021-07-13: News Headlines

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-07-13). President Díaz-Canel Speaks with the People in Streets of Cuba & Repudiates Fake News. orinocotribune.com With a tour of the streets of Cuba, President Miguel Díaz-Canel sent a message of gratitude to the revolutionaries who came out to counter the manipulations of the national and international right wing promoting acts of violence. | In this way, the president joined the campaign in defense of peace and sovereignty on the Caribbean island, which has been threatened recently by what he denounced as "counterrevolutionary elements who receive money from US agencies." | Meanwhile, in the mainstream media and on social media networks, the usual suspects tried to disseminate fake news of an alleged mass mobilization agai…

Editor (2021-07-13). Cuban president Díaz-Canel: Revolutionaries to the streets! mronline.org This speech provides crucial context and information being covered up by the corporate media in the United States. | July 13, 2021 | Newswire…

Fight Back (2021-07-13). Stand with socialist Cuba! fightbacknews.org The working people of Cuba are mobilizing to defend the Cuban revolution and drive pro-U.S. reactionaries from the streets. The Cuban people are united in overcoming the costly U.S. economic embargo and subversion. Cubans steadfastly refuse to return to being a colony controlled by the U.S. Older Cubans remember when it was a playground for American millionaires and gangsters, with widespread poverty, abuse of workers and death an everyday part of life. | Back in 1959, the Cuban revolution shook the captains of Wall Street to their core. The rich have still have not gotten over it. With the working class and its…

WSWS (2021-07-13). Educators angered over scrapping of COVID-19 mitigation measures in schools. wsws.org Teachers have voiced outrage over the CDC's reckless repudiation of safety measures, which by contrast has been championed by the corporate media, the teachers unions and the political establishment.

_____ (2021-07-13). Climate Breakdown And The Corporate Media. popularresistance.org In today's world, the prospects for human civilisation, never mind the existence of historians in the future, look bleak indeed. According to many leading climate scientists and biologists, the most likely outcome for humanity is the collapse of what is called 'civilisation'. They warn that it may already be too late to change course.

Staff (2021-07-13). Controlling Women: With Roe v. Wade in Peril, Authors Say Move Past Court to Save Reproductive Rights. democracynow.org The Supreme Court is set to review a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy that intends to challenge Roe v. Wade, raising concern for advocates about how reproductive rights can be preserved without the landmark ruling. "I think it's very, very likely that the court will either eradicate the right to choose abortion as we now know it completely or so undermine it to make it meaningless for most of American women," says Kathryn Kolbert, longtime public interest attorney who argued the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey before the Supreme Court in 1992, which is credited with saving Roe v. W…

teleSUR (2021-07-12). Mexico Rejects Foreign Intervention in Cuban Incidents. telesurenglish.net Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) rejected the intervention of international powers and mainstream media in the protests in Cuba on Sunday. | RELATED: | "I want to express my solidarity with the Cuban people. I believe that a solution must be sought through dialogue, without the use of force, without confrontation, without violence. It must be the Cubans who decide because Cuba is a free, independent, a…

Yves Engler (2021-07-12). The Assassination of Jovenel MoàØse. orinocotribune.com By Yves Engler — Jul 9, 2021 | Jovenel MoàØse was a violent and corrupt tyrant. While his passing may not elicit much sympathy, the Haitian president's assassination should not be celebrated. | Backed by Washington and Ottawa, MoàØse appears to have been killed by elements within his own violent PHTK political party. The well-organized operation was probably bankrolled by one of the country's light skinned oligarchs and almost certainly carried out with support from inside the government. Police controlled the road to his house yet this video shows a convoy of armed men moving methodically up t…

Staff (2021-07-12). YouTube is censoring 'normal discourse' & punishing those who fight back, content creator targeted by platform tells RT. rt.com YouTube is selectively enforcing its policies regarding 'disinformation' in what appears to be an attempt to silence content creators who oppose the platform's penchant for censorship, political commentator Matt Orfalea told RT. | Orfalea is speaking from experience: Last week he received a 'strike' and had his channel demonetized for allegedly violating the company's policy prohibiting "violent criminal organizations." The flagged video was a seven-year-old satirical fake Starbucks ad, which referred to the coffee chain's "insanely overpriced beverages for psychopaths." YouTube later admitted it had acted "in…

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2021-07-12). The Deadly Censorship of Ivermectin. globalresearch.ca

Phelan Acheson (2021-07-12). Dynamics of Labor in The Covid Era. realprogressives.org In all the coverage of the labor shortage by mainstream, corporate media, the human element of the power dynamics of waged labor in the COVID-era has steadily been missing from popular analysis.

Project Censored (2021-07-12). Emil Marmol, Jennifer Lyons, and Nolan Higdon. projectcensored.org How did the dominant corporate media cover Joe Biden's first 100 days as President? And how has media coverage of Biden differed from that given to Donald Trump? Mickey is…

Emilio Leanza (2021-07-12). How the U.S. Used Comics as Propaganda Abroad. progressive.org During World War II and the Cold War, comics became a tool for spreading a vision of an American-led future.

WSWS (2021-07-12). US imposes new sanctions on China over Uyghurs. wsws.org The bans are part of the escalating US confrontation with China, in which a propaganda campaign of lies and distortions is accompanying a relentless military build-up.

Staff (2021-07-12). Headlines for July 12, 2021. democracynow.org Police Arrest Man Who Planned to Assume Haitian Presidency as More U.S. Ties Emerge, COVID Cases on the Rise in 42 U.S. States; CDC Urges Schools to Reopen in Fall, Thousands Take to Streets of Cuba to Protest Economic Crisis, Pandemic, Top U.S. Military General Leaves Post in Afghanistan as Withdrawal Nears End, Ethiopian Elections Deliver Win for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Racist Trolls Attack England Soccer Team's Black Players After Loss to Italy in Euro 2020, G20 Members Back 15% Global Minimum Tax; Critics Say Greater Change Is Needed, Biden Signs Order to Combat Monopolies, Low Wages, Biden Fires Trump-Era…

_____ (2021-07-12). Accepting Boris Johnson's Lies. strategic-culture.org By Johanna ROSS | Earlier this year an important book was published, though it has had little attention from the mainstream media.

Binoy Kampmark (2021-07-12). Protecting Eden: Pornography and Age Verification Down Under. counterpunch.org Sex on the screen and on the page has often incurred the wrath of Australian censors. Over the years, the opaquely functioning Office of Film and Literature Classification has been guarding Australians like the children of Eden, fearful that their sensibilities might be corrupted. But Australian politicians and various advocacy groups have broadened their interest

WSWS (2021-07-12). CDC's lifting of mask recommendations in US schools threatens massive surge of infections. wsws.org The guideline changes, which have been universally hailed by the corporate media, the entire political establishment and the teachers unions, amount to the reckless endangerment of millions of children, their teachers, parents and the broader population.

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